Just Breathe Confessionals

Send us Fan Mail For the longest time, I thought I had to have my future figured out. I thought college was supposed to lead to one specific career, one specific dream, and one specific version of success. But life had other plans. In this episode, I'm sharing how my journey from high school to audio engineering college, the dreams that changed along the way, and the paths I never expected ul...

Send us Fan Mail Life doesn't always follow the schedule I planned. In this first Between Breaths mini episode, I'm sharing where I've been over the last few weeks after an unexpected loss turned life upside down. From navigating grief and supporting the people I love to a drive that almost became a trip to the beach, this is an honest check-in about the messy, human moments that ha...

Send us Fan Mail For this episode of Just Breathe Confessionals , I’m talking about the place that became my home away from home: theatre. Before it was posters, productions, sound design, or helping with musicals and plays… it was the first place where I truly felt like I belonged. The place that let me exist exactly as I was. In this episode, I’m reflecting on growing up through theatre, discove...

Send us Fan Mail Some grief doesn’t come with a funeral. It shows up years later when you realize you’ve been mourning a parent who is still alive, and that the “mom you needed” might never have existed the way you hoped. We go gently but honestly into that complicated reality, with a content warning for self-harm, mental health, and childhood trauma. We talk about what it’s like to grow up around...

Send us Fan Mail Thirty is supposed to feel like a finish line, right? Stable, certain, grounded, credits rolling. Instead, I’m here almost 31 after a weird chain of events, including getting T-boned by a golf cart at work and then losing two weeks to a brutal respiratory cold, and I can’t stop thinking about how hard we are on ourselves when life doesn’t follow the plan. I talk honestly about the...

Send us Fan Mail In this final episode of Season One, I’m taking a moment to pause and reflect on what this season really was. Breathing Through It All is about survival, honesty, and the quiet courage it takes to press record before you feel ready. It’s about telling stories that lived inside me for a long time — imperfectly, slowly, and without having all the answers. This season wasn’t about fi...

Send us Fan Mail What if the hardest part of healing isn’t leaving the past, but unlearning the voice it left behind? We open the most tender chapter of the Love series to explore how self-doubt takes root, why shrinking feels safe, and how to rebuild a self that no longer asks permission to exist. This is an honest look at body image after criticism, the quiet discipline of self-respect, and the...

Send us Fan Mail This isn’t a love story… it’s a healing story.  In this chapter of The Love Chapters , I talk about the relationship that came after the one that broke me — the one that showed me what gentleness could look like, what safety could feel like, and what it meant to take up space after years of shrinking myself. This episode isn’t about going back.  It isn’t about longing or reliving...

Send us Fan Mail This week’s episode is a little different — a small check-in on a Monday morning instead of my usual Friday drop. I had planned to release the next Love Chapter on the 14th, but life got busy and I didn’t have the space to record the episode with the care it deserves. In this mini update, I talk about what I’ve learned from creating the first eight episodes of Just Breathe Confess...

Send us Fan Mail Kind Note: This episode includes reflections on emotional, mental, and sexual manipulation in a past relationship. Please listen gently and only when you feel safe, grounded, and supported. Your heart deserves care. Episode Description: In this episode, I return to a version of myself I haven’t spoken to in years — the girl who fell in love in high school before she understood wha...

Send us Fan Mail Some friendships feel like air in your lungs; others knock the wind out of you. This story-driven episode dives into the friends who carried us through family fractures, the sudden goodbyes that rewired our trust, and the bold voices that pushed us toward better, braver selves. We open with childhood in a split home, where neighbors and friends’ parents became a quiet safety net—b...

Send us Fan Mail Remember that moment when your body suddenly felt like it belonged to someone else? When scissors seemed like a reasonable solution to a widow's peak that bothered you way too much? When you realized adults had been lying about puberty all along? Daria dives deep into the messy, uncomfortable reality of growing up without proper guidance. From getting a period at age ten and...

Send us Fan Mail Remember when your stomach would flip over one smile from your crush? When sitting next to them at lunch felt like winning the lottery? Before heartbreak had a name, those seemingly tiny feelings were actually enormous – they felt like the whole world. In this deeply nostalgic journey through childhood crushes, I'm rewinding to those pure, awkward, beautiful first feelings th...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever loved something so deeply it became part of your identity? That moment when passion transforms into purpose, creating a space where you truly belong? For me, it was soccer. From age three, standing as a goalkeeper became more than a position—it was who I was. The last line of defense. The protector. Every save ignited something in me nothing else could touch. But wha...

Send us Fan Mail Memory plays tricks on us all, but for those who've experienced trauma, it can feel like flipping through a photo album with half the pictures torn out. That's how I'd describe my childhood memories of Santa Rosa, California – fragmented snapshots rather than a coherent narrative. When I first tried recording this episode, I described places: houses, parks, streets....

Send us Fan Mail This first episode took me eight tries to record—because honestly, I was scared. Scared to be vulnerable, scared it wouldn’t land, scared it might fail. But that fear? It’s exactly what this episode is about. I grew up in the late '90s with undiagnosed anxiety, constantly feeling like I was on the outside looking in. I was the funny, overly sensitive, background character in...

Send us Fan Mail We all have those strange, quirky habits we developed as children—the comfort objects we couldn't sleep without, the songs we played on repeat, the rituals that made no sense to others but meant everything to us. What if those weren't just childhood peculiarities, but your body's sophisticated attempt to manage anxiety before you had words to name it? In this deeply...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the trailer episode of Just Breathe Confessionals — a reflective, truth-telling podcast about mental health, healing, and the power of speaking out loud what we’ve held in for too long. In this intro, host Daria shares the personal story behind the podcast, the meaning of "just breathe," and what listeners can expect moving forward. Through raw storytelling, e...